Monday, April 12, 2010

Poland Mourns Leaders Killed in Plane Crash

Poland's president, his wife, and some of the country's most prominent military died in a plane crash in over Russia this past weekend. A total of 97 people died that were traveling with the president. The residents in Poland are calling this devastation one of the worst disasters since the Second World War. Polish President, Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria were on their way to Russia's Smolensk region to celebrate the anniversary of hte Katyn Massacre. The plane was said to have went down less that 400 yards from an airport runway.

In response to this article, I think that by the President traveling on an old plane, at least 20 years old, wasn't the smartest idea. The President is to be considered one of the most important people in any country. They should be flying on top notch aircrafts, to avoid situations like this. Even though they say that the crash was due to fog also, if the president was flying on a more advanced aircraft, there would be strong enough foglights to be able to bypass this incident.

About this blog:

This blog is an ongoing discussion among members of two sections of Brookdale Community College's English 122 class, taking place in Spring 2010. This class teaches critical thinking and research writing skills, using the news stories of the day as a starting point for investigations. This blog seeks to encourage conversation about important cultural events and developments among community college students.

What each member contributes

Each class member is required to create a new post every week. This post will contain: a link to the new article (or several links, if the student is interested in seeing how the story has been handled by different news outlets), a 3-5 sentence summary of the story, and a paragraph response to the story. This paragraph should identify a controversy raised by the story. If there is no controversy, choose a different article. After identifying the controversy, one might imagine the repercussions of supporting one side over the other, connect the article's contents with other unfolding new stories, or express a viewpoint or opinion about it. These paragraphs should always use a quotation from the argument to help create a strong dialog between the author of the article and the author of the blog posting.

Each class member is also required to comment on another student's post once a week.

All posts are "labeled" with the writer's name so that each student's work can be followed in the label index.